Many communities play their own version of "keeping up with the Joneses," with a watchful eye on other cities and towns to see how they compare. Sometimes it's a formal process of benchmarking, tracking demographics and economic statistics to see how they stack up. In other instances, its simply envy when the community next door gets a shiny new plaything and your hometown doesn't.

Six grant writing workshops are being offered in Indiana to help potential applicants understand, develop and submit their federal grant applications for the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program.

If you've not heard Alicia Keys' soaring tribute to New York City, you need to. It's beautiful. It's a love song, really, a love song to her hometown. Keys, of course, isn't the first to write a song about a city. Not even the first one to sing about New York. Frank Sinatra told us if you could make it there, you could make it anywhere. He also had a soft spot for Chicago, crooning that it was his kinda town.

A new Purdue Extension publication gives community leaders insight into the methamphetamine scourge so they can work to solve the problems it causes in Indiana, which leads the nation in meth lab raids.

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